The next free expansion coming to City of Heroes and City of Villains is now available for testing into the Training Room. An overview of the update is available following this link , while here is the full list of changes.

The Development Team has written an article overviewing the current state ofCity of Heroes and City of Villains. The article gives a look back to the new features that have been introduced into the game during the past year, particularly with the Issues 9, 10 and 11, and forsee even more new stuff coming during 2008.

Two new pay to use services are now being offered to City of Heroes and City of Villains players: Character Transfer and Character Rename. Additionally, all names belonging to characters below level 6 on accounts that have been inactive and not subscribed for over 90 days, have been put out of the reserved names list, and so are available to everyone.

While players are enjoying the recently released Issue 10: Rikti Invasion, Matt Miller, Lead Designer for City of Heroes and City of Villains, shares a few words about how its development has been, and how bunch of ideas on the paper turned into game features.